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OK. So now I am dead!
By Arthur Webster of Ask Old Coot
This is a very delicate platform and seems to collapse at any stage of an intel being typed. For the THIRD time I am trying to get this intel to stick - does anybody else have that problem? Any way, for the third time I will acknowledge the generosity of a friend who gave me a litre of Cruzcampo - an amber liquid that calls itself a beer. Beer and me do not mix well. I am obnoxiously opinionated without the influence of alcohol but this time I have been asked a question that really must be answered. (I'm sure my friends know how to wind me up and how to co-ordinate their efforts to ensure the greatest response from the Old Coot!) Some idiot asked me for what I would like to be remembered. Like most people, I would like to be remembered as the first human being to become immortal. Since this is not going to happen and since the question deserved a serious answer, I gave it some thought. Eventually I decided that I would not like to be remembered at all. The dead are in the past and what they personified is no lomger relevant. Look at how we use the dead. We extol their virtues while ignoring their hunman frailties, we quote them totally out of context and we use them to create totally unachievable targets for our young. What I believe today is already seen by some as 'off the wall' so why should anybody want to remember that I stood for individual responsibility and the exposure of cults that had more to do with making money than with improving the lot of humanity. Cults like Christianity (the most successful money making cult in the history of mankind), the law of attraction, the cult of positive thinking and the law of inevitability. I want it forgotten that I lived in an age of the instant communication of absolute clap trap. If you must remember me at all, simply remember that I lived.
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Contributor's Note
In vino, veritas!
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Once, I too was young.
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Great picture, "old coot." Really provocative intel. You've got me thinking what I'd like to be remembered for. Like you, I'd like to be here to find out from others what they're remembering about me.
Should I whistle. You were a good lookin' man.
Seriously, your intel did remind me of Tom Sawyer and if and when the time comes, I'll remember you.
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